Lisa Eldridge has put her name to a Liberty bag containing four of her own products, an Emma Lewisham mineral SPF50 at full size, a Votary mask and a 15ml bottle of Violette_FR’s Avec Amour. Nine of the eleven products inside are full size, the wash bag is Liberty’s own Artists Bouquet print, and the whole thing is £140 against a stated worth of £448. It arrives in the same window as the beauty advent calendars and covers much the same ground, but it isn’t one — there are no doors, no numbers and no December. What it is instead is a makeup artist’s edit of the shelf she actually reaches for.
The numbers
The Founder’s Kit is £140. Liberty states the contents are worth £448. There are eleven products plus the wash bag, nine of the eleven at full size — only the MZ Skin eye mask and the 50ml Mirror Water body oil arrive in smaller formats. The spread is unusually wide for a kit this size: four makeup and skincare pieces from Lisa Eldridge’s own line, plus sun care, a hand cream, a treatment mask, a texture spray, a fragrance and a body oil. It’s available now, exclusively at Liberty, and it isn’t a dated release — there’s no door count and no start date to plan around. Two products alone, the Votary Radiance Reveal Mask at £65 and the Avec Amour perfume at £57, account for most of what you pay.
Does it pique our interest?
The first question anyone types is whether this is a Lisa Eldridge advent calendar, and it’s worth answering plainly: it isn’t. There are no doors and nothing to open daily. It’s a Liberty beauty kit — the same format the store has used for its Founder’s Kit and Founder’s Edit releases with other names in beauty — and it lands in advent calendar season because that’s when people are buying beauty in bulk. If you came looking for a countdown, the Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar is the one you want. If what you actually wanted was the contents of a good calendar without the theatre of unwrapping them one at a time, this is arguably the better buy, because everything is available on day one.
What makes it hold together is that it reads like a routine rather than a sampler. The Lisa Eldridge products are the ones a makeup artist would put in a kit and not a novelty among them: the Kitten Brow gel, the Kitten Lash mascara, the Velatura Balm for lip and cheek, and the Skin Enhancing Treatment Cleanser at 100ml. Around them sits the kind of supporting cast a professional builds a face on — an SPF, a mask, a hand cream, something for hair.
The quiet hero is the Emma Lewisham Sunceutical SPF50 Mineral Face Crème at a full 50ml. Mineral SPF at this level rarely turns up in a kit at full size, and it’s the product most likely to still be in use in March. The Votary Radiance Reveal Mask at 50ml is the other piece doing real work, and Violette_FR’s Avec Amour at 15ml is a proper wearable bottle rather than a sample vial — enough to decide whether you want the full size.
The bag deserves a mention of its own. Liberty’s Artists Bouquet print is the house pattern people buy on its own, and a wash bag in it is the sort of thing that outlasts everything inside it.
What we’d change
There are three things we’d nudge, and none of them is a reason to skip it.
The first is that we’d like more Lisa Eldridge in it. Four of the twelve items are hers, and three of those are makeup — brow, lash and a lip-and-cheek balm. We’re not asking for a foundation or a concealer here; a fixed kit is the one place a complexion product doesn’t belong, because shade and undertone make it a personal fitting rather than a gift. But she has built a colour line people queue for, and a lipstick or an eyeshadow from it would have made this feel more like her kit and less like a Liberty kit with her name on the front.
The MZ Skin Hydra-Bright Gold Eye Mask is the slot we’d trade first. It’s a single pair rather than the five-pack, and one use of a product this good is a tease more than a trial — we’d rather that place went to another of her own.
The Verden hand cream and the Sam McKnight texture spray are the other two we’d look at. Both are good, both are full size, and neither is the reason anyone picks this bag up. They’re the safe slots in a kit like this, and swapping even one of them for something from the Lisa Eldridge line would sharpen the whole edit.
Full contents list
Makeup
- Lisa Eldridge — Kitten Brow Fluffy Hold and Flyaway Gel, 9g
- Lisa Eldridge — Velatura Balm Dewy Lip & Cheek Stick in Rose Madder, 4.8g
- Lisa Eldridge — Kitten Lash Mascara in Black, 8ml
Skincare
- Lisa Eldridge — Skin Enhancing Treatment Cleanser, 100ml
- Emma Lewisham — Sunceutical SPF50 Mineral Face Crème, 50ml
- Votary — Radiance Reveal Mask, 50ml
- MZ Skin — Hydra-Bright Gold Eye Mask, one pair
Hair
- Hair by Sam McKnight — Cool Girl Texture Spray, 250ml
Fragrance
- Violette_FR — Avec Amour Perfume, 15ml
Body and hands
- Verden — Herbanum Hand Cream, 75ml
- Mirror Water — SMOOTH Body Oil, 50ml
The bag
- Liberty — Wash Bag, Artists Bouquet print
Who it’s perfect for
This is for someone who wants a beauty calendar’s worth of product without the countdown — and for anyone who has watched Lisa Eldridge on YouTube for years and wants the shortcut to what she’d actually pack. It also works as a gift in a way a dated calendar doesn’t, because it can be given in October or in February and nothing about it expires.
It’s less right for someone buying it purely as a Lisa Eldridge kit. Four of the twelve items are hers, and if her colour line is what you’re after you’d be better served putting the £140 towards it directly. And if the ritual is the point — a door a day through December — then a calendar is the format you want, not this: the Charlotte Tilbury Advent Calendar 2026 is the makeup-led one to look at.
Our Pique Verdict
Perfect for: Anyone who wants an advent calendar’s contents without the advent calendar
Best product: Emma Lewisham Sunceutical SPF50 Mineral Face Crème, 50ml
Biggest drawback: Only four of the twelve items are Lisa Eldridge’s own
Value for money: ★★★★½ (4.5/5)
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Frequently asked questions
Is the Liberty x Lisa Eldridge Founder’s Kit an advent calendar?
No. It’s a beauty kit, not a calendar — there are no doors, no numbered days and no December start date. Everything is available as soon as it arrives. It sits in the same part of the season as the beauty advent calendars and covers similar ground, which is why it gets mistaken for one.
Is there a Lisa Eldridge advent calendar for 2026?
Lisa Eldridge doesn’t release a branded advent calendar. The Founder’s Kit at Liberty is the closest thing to one, with four of her own products inside alongside seven other brands.
How much is the Liberty x Lisa Eldridge Founder’s Kit and what is it worth?
It’s £140, and Liberty states the contents are worth £448.
How many products in the Founder’s Kit are full size?
Nine of the eleven products are full size. The MZ Skin eye mask is a single pair and the Mirror Water body oil is 50ml.
Where can you buy the Liberty x Lisa Eldridge Founder’s Kit?
Exclusively at Liberty, online and in store, available now.
